Abdul Alhazred

From Fancyclopedia 2, ca. 1959

(Lovecraft) Arabian necromancer of distinction, author of the Necronomicon. In the Lovecraft Mythos he opened the first gate for the entrance of the Great Old Ones into "our" world, but nonetheless -- or perhaps we should say "and therefore" -- came to a spectacularly messy end; in the sight of a crowd at his city's gates, he was eaten alive by an invisible monster.